June 18th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us as we explore the second element in Kinship’s year-long exploration of an elemental life. Paul Wanta, Sarah Barker, and Frances Bukovsky will be sharing how fire has lived in and shaped their lives and creative process. We hope you will join us as they share images, quotes, and questions that breathe life into our practice and light the creative flames for this upcoming season.

June 11th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

In Bodies Connected by Air, participants explored the relationships that bodies have to air, and through air, to each other. Over 5 weeks, we used self-portraiture and embodied photographic practices to explore the way we personally experience air in our bodies, and then shifted our lenses to the exchanges that occur through shared experiences of air.

June 4th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

During this exploratory practice group, participants utilized the power of embodied rituals, contemplative practices, deep reflection, and playful intuition to explore their fundamental relationships to the element of “air”. Together, we pondered whether embodied practices could awaken new ways of seeing and feeling and in what ways that might shift what and how we photographed.

January 8th 2025 @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

What defines a body of work? What holds it together? When is it complete? After working together for nearly one year, seven members of the Pacing & Perseverance practice group will share their experiences of working on a number of long term projects and how they balanced their work alongside everything else that happens in life.

December 18th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join poet Meghan Sterling and seven Kinship photographers as they explore the ways that ekphrastic poetry can deepen our relationship with our own photographs and photography practice. While ekphrastic poetry is often defined as the writing of poetry about works of visual art, the tradition is truly focused on the close observation of objects and experiences. This makes ekphrastic poetry a beautiful venue for deepening one’s relationship to one’s photographs.

December 11th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

Over seven meetings, this practice group explored relationships surrounding a focus of their choosing, considering physical, emotional and visual contexts, and responding to unexpected disruptions.Fungi, trails, trees, and other plants led to new ways of thinking about and sharing nature’s intelligence, empathy, and connections.

November 6th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

In this practice group, participants explored the feelings of place. Guided by Trebbe Johnson, practice group participants worked with hyperawareness (or “fierce consciousness”) to more deeply explore the reactions that places stirred in them. Together they opened the lenses of their imaginations and emotional bodies to contemplate the profound relationships they have with locations that they hold and are held by them—creating images that reveal a powerful, often mysterious, and always intimate world.